Re: gnome-terminal delete/backspace mess

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Alan Cox <alan redhat com> writes:
> > Linus complicated this mess, by violating X's keysym model: keysyms
> > are supposed to be the symbols printed on the key, and he caused the
> > backspace key to be mapped to delete in the Linux kernel.
> > 
> > Would that he had just set the Linux default tty parameters to make erase the backspace key.
> 
> Actually you should blame Debian not Linus 8) They were the people who finally
> had the guts to standardise the setting and beat all their applications
> into doing the right thing by their rules - they just picked the non Jim
> preferred option 8) Everyone else was so glad they settled the argument
> that they happily followed
> 
> In a terminal session however the erase/del remapping isnt generally about
> application sessions but remote shells


Did Debian get this wrong?

Their guidelines say the Backspace key sends the Backspace keysym, and
Delete sends the Delete keysym. This is how most systems I've seen are
set up.

Havoc